In today’s crowded marketplace, the power belongs to the customer. They want engaging, personalized content to help inform their purchasing decisions. Online video for your business or organization’s website and social media presence represents the fastest and most effective way to separate yourself from competitors and attract more customers. With the rise of affordable HD production equipment and giant video and social platforms, now is the time to invest in video content. Here are four…
In Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, the names of characters foreshadow their emotional and physical state. Names indicate an inevitable mold that the characters fit into overtime. Macon I and his son, Macon II fit into to their last name, Dead. When Macon Dead I endures a physical death, which causes his son to endure an emotional death. Emotional death is when a person is numb to all emotions while they live a numb life. However, Macon Dead III or Milkman defies his probable future because he…
There are diverse categories of Spas but wide-ranging as they are, they are one in the benefits that they offer. Conflicting to the general consensus, going to a spa is not a waste of money and time. A trip to a day spa Sandton is not a luxury. At the present time, where tension looms every second, you indeed need to a short break to escape. A short trip to the tropics is a wonderful way to de-stress, but it takes time, money and effort to plan such a trip. A trip to a spa is speedy and very…
Joseph of Arimathea, who was a follower of Jesus and a member of the council asked Pilate for Jesus’ body to be released to him so that they could put it to rest before sundown when the Sabbath started. He wrapped Jesus body in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb that was cut into stone then rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb. Some of Jesus’ female followers had followed Joseph to the tomb and saw where Jesus was laid to rest. They went home to prepare spices and observe the…
The theory that the people of Germany exhibited indifference during the Holocaust is widely believed to be true by many people. Both James M. Glass’ “Against the Indifference Hypothesis: The Holocaust and the Enthusiasts for Murder” and Omer Bartov’s “Defining Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust” provide alternative reasoning for why German citizens not only watched the slaughter, but also actively participated in it. While Glass effectively argues that the German…
“A little water clears us of this deed” which is another concept borrowed from the bible. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are compared to Pontius Pilate, who sentenced Jesus to be publicly whipped, and crucified. Following Jesus’s crucifixion, “…, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person…” The biblical reference of clearing one’s…
21 Day Fix is a 21 day, three-week diet and exercise program. This program was created by Autumn Calabrese. She is a celebrity fitness trainer with personal training certificates from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and the American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA). The 21 Day Fix program originated because Autumn noticed that even though her celebrity clients were working out and eating healthy, their portions were still too big. Beachbody, LLC. is the company that…
Understanding the inspiration of Scripture is vital to understanding how the Bible that we have came into being. There are several different theories as to how the Bible was inspired, such as the dynamic and verbal theories. According to Millard J. Erickson in his book, “Introducing Christian Doctrine”, the dynamic theory “emphasizes the combination of divine and human elements in the process of inspiration and of the writing of the Bible”, while the verbal theory “insists that the Holy Spirit’s…
Turn on the television and there likely will be news reports of Islamic radicals attacking and killing groups of people for some reason or another. Countless reports of extremists who carry out their massacres in the name of God make it difficult for some to see and to understand how Christianity and Islam share many of the same values. God gives Moses the ten commandments in Exodus 20:3-17, making clear the values of Christianity. Likewise, the Quran includes a version of the ten…
Dante’s profound Imagination The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous work by Dante Alighieri described the poet, Dante himself walk through the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and…